Give execution permissions and follow the prompts, I install it in /opt usually. From a gui you right click in the downloaded file and go to properties, in the permissions section chech that the execution bit is set. From a console, cd into the downloaded file location and run:

WIndows xp working very nicely on virtual box, thank you. I thought this computer (a 3ghz p4) had 2 gigs of ram, but it has only 512 megs... A bit slow when running both systems but I think upgrading the machine to 4 gigs of ram should help that alot.

I really like this vector setup with winxp on one of the workspaces, its perfect for my needs. I tuned windows down from all the eye candy, things improved a bit, same for my vectorlinux, but its still a bit noticably slow for day to day use.

I hope the ram and an accellerated graphics card will help make this workable for me, I'd like to leave both loaded at once because I hoped to run an old school telnet bbs on xp. That should not take much processor I'd think, ansi text and whatever but you never know...

Thank you very much for your help, if anyone knows any ways to squeeze more performance out of a setup like this, please do chime in with some things I can try.

The extra RAM will give you much better performance. With VL running VBox you will have a minimum for running XP. Also just a note on 4Gb RAM a 32-bit OS will not recognize all 4Gb. This can be frustrating for some.

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Thanks I am working on releasing some new and better videos very soon, as well as a whole new crop of music that was all done on vectorlinux.

I am not using the onboard video card, rather an ati rage card with the proprietary ati drivers flgrx or something like that?I will be upgrading to a better accellerated video card as soon as possible. Actually, I just figured out I could squeeze 15 megs of ram back to the system by lowering the frame buffer setting for onboard video back down to its minimum of 1 meg. I'd like that meg back too but it won't let me just disable the onboard video card. CURSES I want that 1 meg of ram back please! System performance is just a tad better, but every bit helps, I'm pretty sure once I drop another 3.5 gigs of ram in this machine it will be very usable with xp and linux going together.

The 4 gig ram issue has been discussed here before, and actually vector linux and many other distributions patch the kernel to allow for up to 4gb of addressable ram. Going OVER 4gb is what is the problem actually...

So 4gb it is for me. Ah crap, I feel like I did when I maxed out my 486 66 to 32 MEGS of ram and everyone said "Why would you ever need more than 32 megs of ram anyway?" - Because more is ALWAYS better, thats why.

I'm surprised the move to 64 bit is going relatively slow for everyone, but many hardware makers are dragging their feet on driver support and other things I suppose... I actually tried a 64 bit machine recently and I was thoroughly dissapointed, but then it WAS running vista. Somehow my brain says if its twice the bits, it should be twice as fast and thats really just not the case sadly enough...

Reflecting back... I started using computers on 8 bit processors, that were 2mhz. Its been a long and winding journey to this current computer I have now. I am very impressed by this linux/xp virtualized system. This setup really excites and inspires my creativity, much like my amiga did back in the day.

This is my favorite computer or computer setup I had had in a very long long time...

I think the problem with those 4 gigs is that some portion of the memory is reserved and hidden from the user. I have a w3k bot at work with 512mb, however all the reports give a smaller number as some ram is shared with the video card. Maybe something similar happens here. You would surely get a reasonable ammount of ram very close to the 4 gigs. I will google a bit, maybe I can find the right answer.

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Somehow my brain says if its twice the bits, it should be twice as fast and thats really just not the case sadly enough...

I was using 8 bit ptocessor at 1 mhz. People were screaming that 16 bit would be twice as fast. Had a chance to work with a 16 bit 2 mhz machine - everything took twice as long! (Oh! I forgot: Murphy has never been repealed! )